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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rodney on June 21, 2016, 10:07:50 PM

Title: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: Rodney on June 21, 2016, 10:07:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQYKyFa9xg
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: Sir Snag-A-Lot on June 23, 2016, 12:37:55 PM
Nice video. I'm hoping to do a fair bit of kokanee fishing this summer.  Take me back to my childhood fishing with my grandfather on Nicola Lake. 

I'm curious if you guys ended up fishing the top rod, and whether or not you had any success on it.  Also, were there significant differences in the number of bites you got between the different tackle setups you guys used?
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: CohoJake on June 23, 2016, 12:59:12 PM
Nice video. I'm hoping to do a fair bit of kokanee fishing this summer.  Take me back to my childhood fishing with my grandfather on Nicola Lake. 

I'm curious if you guys ended up fishing the top rod, and whether or not you had any success on it.  Also, were there significant differences in the number of bites you got between the different tackle setups you guys used?
It looks like the fish hooked at 12:30 is on the top rod, and again at 13:08.
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: Rodney on June 23, 2016, 01:45:45 PM
Pretty much all of the fish we hooked before Noon were on the top rods, while the one rod on the downrigger had very little luck. After Noon, all of the bites came from the rods on the downriggers at 20ft deep.
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: Rodney on June 23, 2016, 04:55:37 PM
Here's a second video, tutorial, which shows all the terminal tackle that we used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9FwHCKjig
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: dufflayer on June 24, 2016, 09:08:20 AM
A colleague of mine has always told me about how he used to slay kokanee on wood lake. He used a willow leaf gang troll and a double red wedding band with a six inch leader and tipped with a night crawler. To this day that's still his go-to trolling rig for any species. I've seen him haul up 18lb Char on that setup. Gotta love  that commitment.
Title: Re: New video: Wood Lake kokanee
Post by: Sir Snag-A-Lot on June 24, 2016, 12:38:53 PM
Interesting.  I have never tried fishing for kokanee right at the surface. Something new to try!